After reading about BFs pinched nerve it got me thinking about what the worst pain I ever felt was.

For me it was when I had to have 4 spinal taps when I has bacterial meningitis when I was 14.

A close second was after a car accident in '96.I woke up to find my right arm pointing straight backwards.My humorous had what could be described as triple spiral fracture with many floating pieces.When the shock wore off...OMG!!!

An honorable mention would be when I fell off a ladder in Feb. of '06 and broke a rib.

So what's your pain?

Spending the weekend enjoying the worst pain I have ever felt......seems to be getting slowly better.....I guess!:eek:

I had to have my sinus canals checked with a camera that the doctor sent in through my nose. Eye watering pain.

Spending the weekend enjoying the worst pain I have ever felt......seems to be getting slowly better.....I guess!:eek:

It takes time,that's for sure.

Proper medication and physical therapy can be a big help.

Kidney stones. The first one was bad but it passed while I was in the emergency room. The second one, a year later, was much worse.
For what it's worth, my nurse had 3 kids and kidney stones. She said she would rather give birth than pass another stone.

About 2 weeks ago.
After my back surgery, 1st 2 days were hell, pretty bad for another week after that. Not sure is I'd want to go thru that again. Morphine didn't put a dent in the pain.

Broken Ribs and a dislocated shoulder come to mind....

When my gall bladder started spitting stones :crying:

My wedding day.

-spence

When I lost a fish so large it could have been a record who knows, it hurt very very bad.
then there was a ruptured disk that got worse and worse as a month went by with me still working and building an addition on my house the whole time, got so bad I didn't sleep for 3 nights and sat at the edge of the bed moaning, couldn't sit in the car, had to have the wife drive me in my van while laying on the floor on my side.
then there was food poisoning, made me realize what childbirth must be like.

Sitting home with an ex-girlffiend one night when my buddy called and told me they were into some decent fish.

when I broke my collar bone skateboarding as a teenager and my friend who said it was a dislocated shoulder and went to pop it back into place.....YEEOOOW....idiot.....
I was in a brace for well over a month....and had my first experience wiff drugs...:jump:

This might not sound bad but it HURT. was swimming in a local pond and stepped on some glass, sliced the area between my 4th and 5th toes, musta been right on a nerve.... excrutiating pain! :lossinit:
Was only about thirteen then and have not come close to that level of pain since... :bc:

Physical pain - When I blew out my ACL and 30+% of the meniscus, partial tear MCL - several second pain induced blackout...

Fall off tower

2 broken vertebrae, 3" fracture in sternum and bruised heart

THAT %$%$%$%$in hurt.

Runner up would be the nerve in my finger in between pain meds.

Second runner up would be a rusty 20 penny nail in a board going completely through my foot with a sneaker on and my dad having to pull it out to go to the hospital.

Physical pain - When I blew out my ACL and 30+% of the meniscus, partial tear MCL - several second pain induced blackout...

Just this week my brother was at work and just walking up a flight of stairs when he heard a POP in his knee that was as loud as firecracker.
Dropped him.All done.

Jeez forgot to mention in '99 I literally shattered both knee caps in another car accident but at that point I was used to the idea of pain that
it didn't seem as bad as it was.

Another honorable mention would be when I was 11 we took a family vacay and I closed the locked door right across the palm of my left hand.Every animal at Benson's Wild Animal Farm heard me that day!

Those meningitis induced headaches weren't much fun either.

would be seeing someone wear white before Memmorial Day or after Labor Day. What a lament.

I have been very lucky compared to you guys. Hitting the bridge of my nose with a 28 oz. framing hammer taking batter boards off of an interior 2nd floor wall hurt like a mother you know what. Going to my knees next to an unprotected second floor stairwell open all the way to the cellar floor as a result scared the beejesus out of me.

freshman year of gym.. 2 mile run, my left knee was already hurting and i jumped onto the curb, landed wrong on my foot, dislocated my knee, having the nurse and the teacher run over, and with no warning at all pop it back in [ i've never yelled louder ], and tell me to go finish running. i hopped out of class.

Just this week my brother was at work and just walking up a flight of stairs when he heard a POP in his knee that was as loud as firecracker.
Dropped him.All done.

Yes, half my team heard that noise....

Pinched nerve going out of my neck and out left shoulder. After years of neck pain, I had a bone spur growing into my spinal canal. PAIN WAS LIKE CHEWING TIN FOIL but it never relented for 3-4 sleepless days. Prescriptin meds didnt amke a dent. Quack nurse practitioner gave me tylenol and told me to see a chiropracter, chiropracter almost apralyzed me. Discectomy, cadaver bones, 3 screws, and titanium plate later, all is well.

Big Fish, consider going to see a Dr. if the pain gets too bad. Get real meds. He checked my reflexes, all messed up. plunked my middel finger, and my thumb moved. aye-yi-yi. It's painful to even recall.

Slipped on ice at the top of stairs and landed on my back. Couldn't move for 15 minutes and crawled back into the house. Nearly had Jenn call for an ambulance. Cracked ribs,bruised coccyc, and whiplash. Locked my bowels for a weekand a half. Missed a week of work. Still sneak up on that set of stairs after 4 years....

I could tell you what it's like to have a broken back, but words alone cannot describe it.

kidney stones are known as the worst...had them...

back pain so bad ya wanna cry..... that continues....

getting hit in the face by a boomer rang comes to mind.

but i'll never forget that one day while i had on my cast
on for my broken ankle....

my larger dingo dog came running across the room
to greet me in a happiness mode....

she turned sideways and body slammed my leg hitting the cast
in particular... which woke it up bigtime and it swelled up
with no where for the swelling to go.... still in a cast...
pain that had me writhing and yelling...
i took allot of strong meds that day/ i can tell you that.

Compound fracture right arm. Broke it in a bike crash(pedal)when I was 16. I broke that arm 4 other times in football but that was the worst. i also broke every bone in my foot and ankle in a car crash when I was 20 and that was a close 2nd.

ahhh. i was 19 i think. I was on our old boat...a 60 foot long custom steel ketch. We were almost inside cutyhunk harbor and had just headed up into the wind do do something, maybe drop the main, I forget...Anyway, I was up on the fordeck. I bent over to grab something and the clew of the genoa somehow managed to come from behind me and tag my nuts at about 100 mph.. For those who dont know what the clew is, on that sail it was a 2 inch stainless grommet sewn into the corner of the sail. it probably weighs a pound.

i get the shivers just thinking about that one :hihi:

Right along with Big fish..Pinched syactic nerve(sp)..OMG....I could not get relief no matter what I did.I was up all night just about crying.Finally went to the Doc..I dont care what you do but give me pain meds..They did MRI and found nothing..Pain Meds and muscle relaxers thank god..2 weeks later, nothing

Last year I had hernia surgery , that was no big deal,
but it's day surgery and they don't let you out of the hospital till you pee.
It wasn't till I tried to pee that I realized they put a friging tube up the pee hole for a bag :crying:
Felt like I was pissing fire !!!

Last year I had hernia surgery , that was no big deal,
but it's day surgery and they don't let you out of the hospital till you pee.
It wasn't till I tried to pee that I realized they put a friging tube up the pee hole for a bag :crying:
Felt like I was pissing fire !!!

omg...that reminds me and how could I forget....
the worst was the camera I had put up there to look in my bladder
YOWZZZAH.......

Bone Marrow Biopsy. Ouch, I still have to turn away from House M.D. sometimes because it reminds me of the procedure I had 13 years ago.

getting hit in the face by a boomer rang comes to mind.



*shivers*

Posterior shoulder dislocation after going over on a Lazer outside Pomponneset inlet.

Four hours out of place till the harbor master and ambulance got me to Falmouth Hospital. :(

This one time in college, I was in pain so bad that I passed out on the bathroom floor without the help of alcohol.

back pain was no fun, but the worst for mme was bursitis with impingement and a floating bone chip in my left shoulder. the pain went from my neck down to my thumb and it felt like my arm was on fire. SS Hospital gave me flexeril, percocet and dilaudid but that wouldn't even take the edge off. My primary dr got me in to see a specialist (after about 2 weeks) and he refused to give me a shot saying that my mri was unavailable, I wanted to kick him in the nutz, :af: I got my mri, xrays, and report and called the Baptist Hosp, where I got a cortizne shot and set up w/ therapy. This went on for about a month

Going over backwards while doing a wheelie on a dirtbike with no helmet on pavement. Crushed some bones in my face and now have some titanium in my cheak.

An honorable mention would be my college roomate who fell mountainbiking with clipless pedels and managed to tear his foot off so that it was only holding on by some skin. The first person to arrive on the scene passed out when they saw the carnage and the second person threw up. They were able to re-attach it but he walks with a limp.

Had just finished playing basketball game in college - intense game for spot in playoffs. We won. In locker room, stepped into shower and SNAP :eek: ...ruptured achilles tendon and out like a light for a second, then vomiting from the pain. :yak6: Surgery, casts for 4 months and a full year for recovery...nasty.

no lie, erging 2000m for a 2k test in college. gotta make that varsirt boat and it doesnt happen just sittin around. if u havent heard of an erg, or ergometer, look for one at ure gym and stay on it for awhile. its a great work out and u can make it as hard or easy as u want. unfortunatly for me, i dont have a choice...

Back around 1990 while i was fishing commercially I got hit in the face with a 1" steel rope, saw stars, birds and the lights almost went out. Ended up with broken nose and crushed some bones around my eye socket. Hurt more when they had to break my nose again to straighten it out That pain does not compare to the pain I went thru with the gall bladder, I had the stupid man syndrome for about 5 months, and when I was curled up on the floor in a ball in the batroom one night I figured it was time to go have it checked. The doctor was a real pro, and was upset when he had to make his cut to remove the bag of rocks larger. He did say it was a trophy.

Almost forgot the time around 12-14 years old I lit a firecracker and went to throw it cept the fuse zipped off in between my index finger and thumb. OW

never did that again though :hee:

I would say back pain is the worst I've had. Them spasms are like being electricuted.

The Red Sox losing to the Mets in 1986. :smash:

on two occasions, I had to get a needle in the botton of my foot. Worst pain I ever felt.

Kidney stones are pretty bad. The spasms from the 2 herniated disks I have now are just as bad. The accident that broke my jaw and knocked 2 teeth out is not even worth mentioning compared to the back.

#1
short version, tree limb, chainsaw ,”ladder”, limb fell, knocking ladder out from under me, when I got to the ground the chainsaw followed. Bounced the chainsaw blade off my knee cap. It had stopped running before contact but still cut through jeans, got sick to my stomach, Very short nap followed.
#2
In 1984 sneezed and did the pinched nerve in the lower back thing. Still got a spot on the top of the foot with no feeling.

Last year I had hernia surgery , that was no big deal,
but it's day surgery and they don't let you out of the hospital till you pee.
It wasn't till I tried to pee that I realized they put a friging tube up the pee hole for a bag :crying:
Felt like I was pissing fire !!!
#3
Same here except you forgot they send in some sweet young thing to put in the catheter tube that suddenly looks the size of a baseball bat and feels like it, where it doesn’t belong. She cradled me so tenderly and zip.... Seeing me holding the bed rail white knuckled she asked if it hurt. I whispered YES. So she pulled it out and repeated the whole thing again.... same results, it still hurt. She asked if it still hurt and I whimpered no. fool me once and I won’t fall for that one again. Got even though. shoulda seen the look on her face as that bed pan filled to the rim. she should have used a much bigger one.

Not sure I can top some of the ones already put up but....

1. Back pain - playing basketball came down flat footed (white guy that could jump) and compressed a disk. had to walk to the T and had trouble lifting my leg up to a curb. 1 week on the floor with flexeril and it only goes out once in a while now.

2. Helping my dad out when I was 10. Putting stone in an electric cement mixer, reached around with one hand and put the other where it was not supposed to be. Had two fingers stuck between the gears but that did not hurt. When they got the gears off and blood started to rush to my two crushed fingers, now that hurt.

3. Dropping a big pipe threader on my sneakered tow, hurt. Not releasing the blood for a couple of days and then having to have the doctor poke the nail with a hot needle, and then squeeze the tow. That hurt.

Good luck with the recovery BF.

KIDNEY STONES!!!!!

Line drive in the face while pitching in little league, I'm lucky that it didn't do any permanant damage.

1. broken rib- never heals right still aches-hs football
2. broken collar bone-doing stupid things with a dirtbike
3. back pain- bulging disks and pinched nerves from lifting and doing lots of stupid things
4. The bone on your top of your foot, dropped a truck tire rim on it, doesnt hurt much, accept when you put weight on it.

Gall stones !! The floor jumped right up and hit me in the face.:bc: :bc:

the gout is my worst pain i wouldnt wish it on anyone

Right along with Big fish..Pinched syactic nerve(sp)..OMG....I could not get relief no matter what I did.I was up all night just about crying.Finally went to the Doc..I dont care what you do but give me pain meds..They did MRI and found nothing..Pain Meds and muscle relaxers thank god..2 weeks later, nothing

Yep...me too. Stitches, busted collar bone and some things I wont go into detail on, all that stuff added up didnt beat sciatica on the pain scale. Walking (heck even sitting or laying) was pure torture ....even while on multiple heavy duty pain meds.....:eek5:

the first 5 days after getting blown off a jetty last Sept.

Dislcoated shoulder was the worst pain - especially awakening at night when i rolled. I can't drink nor take pain killers so i just had to deal with it. :uhoh:

broke my head ..2 week in the hospital .. preist gave me last rights.. too bad for the fish .. I lived .. :tm:

I had warts on my hands for a long time, seen many a doctor and all kinds of treatment. The last thing I had done was getting zapped by laser, they increase the # of jewels each vist. The first vist is like someone snapping a thin rubber band over and over in small area around the warts. They had increased the jewels and at the end it felt like someone snapping a thick rubber band ...it hurt like ^%$# hell, I left that day with tears in my eyes and swore I would never set foot in that place again.

1. Had shingles in my scalp and forehead last fall. Percocet wouldn't even touch it. Nerve root pain is a different type of pain. A deep searing like an internal fire.
2. Stepped barefoot on a tie tack with a 1/2 inch stud left on the wood floor at the bottom of the stairs by my daughter. Went into the ball of my foot with all my weight on it as I stepped off a step. Must have hit the bone. Holy %$%$%$%$!
3. Got launched off over the handle bars on my mountain bike. Outside of my knee landed on a softball sized pointed rock with my weight plus a lot of force. Tried to stand up but it felt like my femur would snap if I put too much pressure on it. I expected it to just break in half. It didn't and I drove myself to the ER on the way home. Turns out I deeply bruised the tendons and bone on the outside of my knee. Needed PT to get it right.

1.) 13.5 pound scaffolding leveling jack with a 6 x 6 x 1/4 inch steel plate welded to the bottom dropped/thrown corner down on right big toe.Hurt dance= 20 minutes.
Hurt enough to see spots.
Bought steel toe boots at 6:00 PM sharp the same day.
2.) Piece of slag off an air/gas torch (Molten steel 3000°+ F) INSIDE above mentioned steel toe boot. Wearing liner socks under long underwear under wool socks under boots under jeans. Melted right through all the layers to leave a nice purple dot.
Hurt dance/rolling around on the floor trying to get boots off=about 10-12 minutes.
That is all. Lucky.

For anyone that hasn't had the pleasure of experienceing the "hurt dance".....................
Get a hammer, hit your thumb, very hard.

For anyone that hasn't had the pleasure of experienceing the "hurt dance".....................
Get a hammer, hit your thumb, very hard.[/QUOTE]



Now, that is a dance that would make watching "dancing with the stars" with my wife bearable. Yes I was born here, my engish sucks.

had a friend who has since past away, hit his thumb while we were roofing. got so mad he smashed his thumb again crushing his thumb knuckle...moral to this story...don't do drugs

Gotta be back pain for me. Psyatica, (sp) couldnt really walk and when i could my left leg would just stop workin and down i would go, then tryin to get up. Also, jacked the back earlier this year at work, blown disc w2as inflammed because i guess the scholiosis that i didnt know about showed up, my back looked like one of those curvy road signs. Couldnt stand upright, felt like i got left behind on the evolution thing.
And the whackin your nails with metal things sucks good too. I piece of steel landed on my big toe, only the corner hit the toe, crap, did the pain dance for a week at work. The doc burned a hole in the nail and it squirted blood pretty good, felt a hundred times better but that nail is the nastiest lookin thing around.

When I had my bladder catheter removed after a very serious car accident when I was 18, not one of my better moments. But holy crap tubes aren't supposed to go up there nor are they meant to be pulled out! :(

falling off roof backwards while shingleing and landing on aluminum extention ladder....I had rung marks imprinted on my back for a month...and the ladder looked like it got ran over by a truck...man that hurt...

Physical pain - When I blew out my ACL and 30+% of the meniscus, partial tear MCL - several second pain induced blackout...
me too...cept i did mine twice same knee!

Skatboarding I must been 15-16. I skated for a shop up on the east side (thayer) we're shooting some footage of us doing tricks for a shop video. I'm jumping from one parking level to one below it doing a 360 kickflip. Ran through it once no problem. Didnt get it on tape. I run through it again, half way through it, Im in the air board is flipping hit the bushes in between parking levels ( I was jumping from the top to the lower level) so the board hit bush and it stops, it pokes straight up and I take it on the nuts. There were parking meters in the bushes that had the meters chopped off. The board hit the meter, pointed straight up whacked me good, and I slid down the rest of the parking meter pole cartoon style... You want to talk about pain

Physical pain - When I blew out my ACL and 30+% of the meniscus, partial tear MCL - several second pain induced blackout...

ditto there John. thats pretty much exactly how my injury went down. post-surgery wasn't much fun either...

Lost me mum, August, 2004

This hurt.

Skatboarding I must been 15-16. I skated for a shop up on the east side (thayer) we're shooting some footage of us doing tricks for a shop video. I'm jumping from one parking level to one below it doing a 360 kickflip. Ran through it once no problem. Didnt get it on tape. I run through it again, half way through it, Im in the air board is flipping hit the bushes in between parking levels ( I was jumping from the top to the lower level) so the board hit bush and it stops, it pokes straight up and I take it on the nuts. There were parking meters in the bushes that had the meters chopped off. The board hit the meter, pointed straight up whacked me good, and I slid down the rest of the parking meter pole cartoon style... You want to talk about pain

There is pain then there is THAT.
Don't have to hit them; just graze them...
How long before you could breathe again?

Lost me mum, August, 2004

Beyond comprehension.
I can't even imagine that.
"Sorry for your loss" just don't cut it.
That just kind of took the wind out of the whole thread for me.

Beyond comprehension.
I can't even imagine that.
"Sorry for your loss" just don't cut it.
That just kind of took the wind out of the whole thread for me.


Your right SOK
All the injuries and pain become distant memories, but not the one about Mom.

When I was 5, back in the days of short shorts, I got my scrotum stuck in the handle bar axle of my Big Wheel.

There was the &^%$@#@ time ^%// in prizon(sp) #@!//soap//=shower//ouch%$#!:love:

Lost me mum, August, 2004

Your right.

I lost my mom suddenly on 5/30/05. I miss her every day.

There was the &^%$@#@ time ^%// in prizon(sp) #@!//soap//=shower//ouch%$#!:love:

I bet that left a mark.:biglaugh:

the first 5 days after getting blown off a jetty last Sept.

Dislcoated shoulder was the worst pain - especially awakening at night when i rolled. I can't drink nor take pain killers so i just had to deal with it. :uhoh:


I remember that story... made me shiver.